Insecure digital certificates In node-forge
Description
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in node-forge
Impact
RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification code is lenient in checking the digest algorithm structure. This can allow a crafted structure that steals padding bytes and uses unchecked portion of the PKCS#1 encoded message to forge a signature when a low public exponent is being used.
Patches
The issue has been addressed in node-forge 1.3.0.
References
For more information, please see "Bleichenbacher's RSA signature forgery based on implementation error" by Hal Finney.
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Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Package | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
 npm | 1.3.0 | ||
npm | 2.1.0 | ||
 debian 11 | 0.10.0~dfsg-3+deb11u1 | ||
 rpm rhel8 | - | - |
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